When he was 12 years old, Christophe Maleau swam 40 kilometers from Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 to Martinique 🇲🇶 to support his mother and raise breast cancer awareness.
He completed the crossing in October 2020. He started from Rodney Bay in Saint Lucia at 5:10 a.m. and reached Sainte Anne after 13 hours, 50 minutes, and 47 seconds.
The swim was part of the Octobre Rose breast cancer awareness campaign. Maleau did it for his mother, Murielle, who was diagnosed with the disease when he was nine years old. He described the experience as enriching and, above all, an act of self-transcendence.